Please Help ID what I just bought
- Thread starter PufferFreak88
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I'm temped to breed it with my thai silk flowerhorn, do u think thats a good price that i paid for the fish?
buck_wildest;4500733; said:
Post a pic buck.
Its a female. $15 is an average price I guess. If I were to get a red texas I would get it from a respected breeder. Which would cost around $150 that size.
I also would suggest finding a female thai silk flowerhorn to breed with. Pure strains are always better than hybrids.
Right now I think I have a male silk flowerhorn and hopefully i can breed the two together as the silk flowerhorn get a lil bigger.
It looks like what people are calling Paratheraps synspilum "shine spot" which is popular in Europe. Although it could be a hybrid I'm not one to just scream hybrid to every fish I see that I don't know.
Look at the photos in this thread, or search for "shine spot" on fish forums.
http://www.cichlidae.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=654
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?p=3660551
Look at the photos in this thread, or search for "shine spot" on fish forums.
http://www.cichlidae.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=654
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?p=3660551
Paratheraps Synspilum?
That is just a Vieja Synspilum collected from a different area. Its still classified as Vieja. Just a spangly Syn, which this fish clearly is not. Definatly Herichthys based fish x something with a red base. Anything more than that is just a guess.
That is just a Vieja Synspilum collected from a different area. Its still classified as Vieja. Just a spangly Syn, which this fish clearly is not. Definatly Herichthys based fish x something with a red base. Anything more than that is just a guess.
The whole thing you just said is a guess. We will never be 100% certain of the parent species because we dont know who bred them with what. I guess if your going to cross it wih something different, knowing its parent species isnt that important.FishingOut;4500863; said:
FishingOut;4500863; said:
Say what? Read up on your taxonomy. It's Paratheraps synspilum.
As to the rest, it's all just guessing but instead of just throwing out random fish (a dempsey, cyano, synspilum, red texas, blackbelt, carpintis, hybrid so far?) I actually back up my thoughts with other photos of similar fish and a location and distribution for a variant of synspilum that have a characteristic spotted appearance like this fish has.
It's all just guessing but at least my guess is mildly educated.
Also the "pure strains" are better than a hybrid comment...in regards to a hybrid, made me laugh.
